'60 Minutes' is set to finally air the shelved 'Inside CECOT' segment tonight [View all]
Nearly a month has passed since CBS News chief Bari Weiss made the extraordinary decision to hold Sharyn Alfonsi’s “60 Minutes” story about Venezuelan men deported by the US to a hellish prison in El Salvador. “I look forward to airing this important piece when it’s ready,” Weiss said.
Evidently, it’s ready now. The “Inside CECOT” report is slated to air Sunday evening, according to sources at CBS.
As Alfonsi wrote in her Dec. 21 internal memo claiming “corporate censorship,” the piece had been fact-checked and legally vetted; it had even been shipped off to the Canadian network that re-airs “60 Minutes,” which is how a bootlegged copy got online, further embarrassing CBS.
That Canadian copy also means media critics will be able to compare the original report to the Weiss-approved version that airs tonight.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/media/cbs-60-minutes-inside-cecot-bari-weiss-exclusive
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